Public Health 2026
Public Health 2026 is the national conference where public health professionals, researchers, policy-makers, academics, students and trainees come together to strengthen efforts to improve health and well-being, to share the latest research and information, to promote best practices and to advocate for public health issues and policies grounded in research.
What: Public Health 2026: The Canadian Public Health Association’s annual conference
When: Wednesday 11 March at 09:00 to Friday 13 March at 13:30 (ET)
Where: Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth, Montreal, Quebec (900 René-Lévesque Blvd W. Ave.)
Programs
The scientific program is available on the conference website.
Highlights
- PLENARY I: Use with Care: Governing AI for the Public Good in Health featuring David Buckeridge, McGill University and Sebastian Garcia Saiso, Pan American Health Organization
- PLENARY II: The Work of Trust, Relationships, and Reconciliation featuring Niigaan Sinclair, University of Manitoba
Requests for interviews with any presenter can be made via CPHA communications staff. Complementary attendance for members of the media is available. Simultaneous interpretation is available in plenary sessions.
CPHA is pleased to host Public Health 2026 through a unique and effective collaboration with the following organizations:
Contributing Partners
- Canadian Institute for Health Information
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- National Collaborating Centres for Public Health
- Pan American Health Organization
- Public Health Agency of Canada
- Statistics Canada
Collaborators
- Assembly of First Nations
- Association pour la santé publique du Québec
- Canadian Alliance for Regional Risk Factor Surveillance
- Métis National Council
- Network of Schools and Programs of Population Public Health
- Public Health Physicians of Canada